Get, You need to get to the bottom of why your hormones are malfunctioning at such an early age. Mercury, toxics, chemical exposure, birth control pills etc. Find a local holistic practitioner who is a Medical Dr and get tested for toxics. Settle only for a MD.
My wife and I are older and have been suplimenting with iodorol (iodine) as a way to loose heavy metals and get and keep hormones functioning. Check out the yahoo group for iodine off breastcancerchoices.org . Google: iodine perimenopause
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Please check out the breastcancerchoices.org iodine / yahoo group.
I have my doubts about maca due to it’s goitergenic properties and risk to shutting down the thyroid. The estrogenic, testostrogenic benefits in my view and short experiments are more for already healthy bodies who want “more”. The risks are not worth it to look to maca to fix weak or malfunctioning bodies. I posted above my reasoning. Chinese herbal protocols might be better bets for supporting weakness. In the end BHRT is the mainstay for an antiaging treatment for andropause or menopause. We are both on BHRT and I take lots of Chinese herbs and maca but can’t say that maca OR Chinese herbs have a noticable benefit. Iodine (iodorol in the range of 50mg or more) has a noticable benefit. Initially iodine will worsen your symptoms since all americans are loaded with toxics since we place such a low value on clean air, water, food.
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